Do None of You Have to Work?

[Complete, Happy Ending] *Several upcoming works in my author column: "The Genius Ghost Tamer" and "I Just Want to Be a Background Character". Their blurbs are below. *Completed sweet romance in my author column: "The Substitute and the Moonlight Lover Get Their Happy Ending" *Click my author column to see more completed works. Muah -3- *Blurb: After dying from overwork, Xie Qiushan transmigrates into a sweet romance danmei novel as the male lead's assistant. In the original story, the male lead spends lavishly on the protagonist, taking their sweet romance to the extreme. But only the couple get to enjoy themselves. As their assistant, Xie Qiushan has to clean up the male lead's messes at work. While the couple watch the sunrise on a mountaintop, Xie Qiushan works overtime until the early hours of the morning; while the couple vacation on an island, Xie Qiushan sits through meeting after meeting. Without a million-yuan annual salary to keep him going, Xie Qiushan would have quit on the spot. His desire to avoid work reaches its peak when he meets Ning Cheng, the story's major villain. Ning Cheng built his fortune from nothing and is a legend in the business world. But to Xie Qiushan, he's an idiot with nothing but a handsome face: rude, arrogant, and conceited. The two companies unexpectedly begin working together, forcing Xie Qiushan to work with Ning Cheng. They can't stand each other and constantly scheme against one another. Ning Cheng mocks him for being gay, just like his boss. Xie Qiushan calls him arrogant and hot-tempered, and says no wonder he's still single. The project team is a powder keg, until the assistant books the wrong hotel. The two argue all night and end up in bed together. * The first time Ning Cheng sees Xie Qiushan, he thinks the man has a pretty face but no ability whatsoever, just a pretty vase. But when Xie Qiushan brings a dying rival company back to life, Ning Cheng realizes the man might actually have some talent. The problem is, Xie Qiushan can't stand him and treats him like an enemy. Later, the two companies work together, and Ning Cheng and Xie Qiushan are constantly bickering. Then an accident happens, and Ning Cheng suddenly realizes that Xie Qiushan is actually pretty likable. Believing that he should take responsibility for what he's done, Ning Cheng asks him to date. Xie Qiushan gives him a sidelong glance. "We're adults. Who does that sort of thing anymore? Besides... it was a terrible experience. I never want to do it again." A man's pride goes snap, and shatters. Reader's Guide: 1. A cool-on-the-outside, warm-on-the-inside, snarky worker, the recipient x a sharp-tongued, pure-hearted, eventually-smitten pursuer 2. 1v1, both inexperienced, happy ending 3. The story is entirely fictional and takes place in a transmigrate-into-a-book world, so some details have been invented to fit the original novel. Please don't compare it to real life -3- 4. The recipient won't be an assistant forever. He will get promoted! [Emphasis] Upcoming: "He Lost His Memory Before the Divorce". Please add it to your favorites Shi Yunzhou and Lu Ji have been married for three years, and they're still deeply in love. No matter how busy Lu Ji is, he always comes home to eat with him; for Shi Yunzhou's birthday, he throws a grand celebration and sets off dazzling fireworks on the beach. To outsiders, Shi Yunzhou is incredibly lucky to have married Lu Ji after the Shi family fell on hard times. Only Shi Yunzhou knows Lu Ji doesn't love him. He married him only to repay the kindness of Shi Yunzhou's father, who helped raise him. For three years, Lu Ji has always slept in the study. Their loving relationship is all an illusion, and they are as distant as roommates. As their sham marriage enters its fourth year, Shi Yunzhou discovers in the study a divorce agreement Lu Ji prepared the year they got married. He finally decides to get a divorce and set them both free. But an accident happens on the way, and Shi Yunzhou ends up in the hospital. Lu Ji rushes over. The usually distant Shi Yunzhou cries and throws himself into his arms. "What took you so long? I missed you so much." Lu Ji: "... ?" It turns out Shi Yunzhou has lost his memory. He's forgotten everything after the age of sixteen and, after listening to those around him, firmly believes the two are childhood sweethearts. To avoid upsetting him, Lu Ji has no choice but to play along. He eats with him, lulls him to sleep, and takes him to watch the sunrise in the middle of the night when he gets the urge. Everything seems to prove Shi Yunzhou right: they're a loving couple. But one thing leaves him completely baffled. Why is his life with Lu Ji so chaste? Is this really how a couple married for four years should live? No. One night, Shi Yunzhou watches Lu Ji's back and thinks, he has to get Lu Ji going. Upcoming: "The Genius Ghost Tamer". Please add it to your favorites, 3 One day, the renowned genius ghost tamer Zhu Xingqiao awakens to discover that he's nothing but cannon fodder in a supernatural novel. Though he is exceptionally gifted and became famous at a young age, he is destined to become a stepping stone for the male lead, Ling Yuchuan. He will die young at thirty, and all the ghosts he raised will choose a new master, becoming powerful aides on Ling Yuchuan's path to revenge and power. Born with yin-yang eyes, figuring out ghost-taming techniques on his own at three, taming a hundred-year-old evil ghost at five, and already the founder of the ghost-taming world at just twenty-two, Zhu Xingqiao thinks: What the hell? Shouldn't I be the protagonist? To avoid his early death, Zhu Xingqiao decides to kill Ling Yuchuan, who is currently only sixteen. But when he finds Ling Yuchuan, he discovers that the boy is skin and bones, looks thirteen or fourteen despite being sixteen, and lives in someone else's home, where he is treated like a slave and beaten and humiliated. In short, his life is miserable. Bullying someone like that would be worse than being an animal. So Zhu Xingqiao changes his plan. He pays to bring Ling Yuchuan home, intending to use his special constitution and the male lead's halo to figure out why he will suffer a backlash, and thus change his own fate. When Ling Yuchuan first arrives, he's extremely wary, timid, and afraid of strangers. Zhu Xingqiao spends a long time getting him to move from sleeping in a corner to sleeping in a bed, teaching him to speak, sending him to school, and even passing on his ghost-taming techniques, raising him like half a disciple. Watching the pitiful boy grow into a well-rounded student with excellent grades fills Zhu Xingqiao with pride. But when the story reaches its starting point, Ling Yuchuan still dies in front of him and follows the original plotline. Zhu Xingqiao fails to save him and fades out of the story, living in seclusion at a mountain villa. Now and then, he hears news of Ling Yuchuan and learns that Ling Yuchuan has thrown the world of mysticism into chaos, but Zhu Xingqiao feels nothing. Still, when he wakes from dreams at midnight, remembering the terrible way Ling Yuchuan died, he can't help crying in his sleep. A pair of cold hands caress his face and wipe away his tears. They greedily kiss his lips, and a whisper comes from beside his ear: "Master, Brother Qiao, are these tears for me?" Zhu Xingqiao wakes with a start, cursing himself for being such a terrible person that he would dream something like that. He looks up and sees Ling Yuchuan floating in midair, clutching the clothes Zhu Xingqiao had taken off. Shit. A ghost. A powerful, tragic, gloomy, rabid-dog pursuer x a genius big shot who gradually becomes easygoing while raising a child. He thinks he raised him well, but in reality he raised him all wrong. Theme: Work hard and create a better life.